This thread is making me second guess all of my original plans.....hehe

I want to brew outside on the back patio where I have a natural gas stub so I could run the burners.
But you keep mentioning having your HLT heated with electricity....hehe
So then i'm thinking.....hmmmm I guess I could still brew on the patio and run the electric heater with my tri-fuel generator.....hehe
Or, I could just run another circuit to the patio to power the heater element.

This weekend I will buy the supplies and hopefully start on the above ground planter box for the hops and the trellis.
Next weekend I hope to get a couple loads of potting soil and mulch to fill up the boxes!

I can't wait for the store to send me the email letting me know that my pre-order of rhizomes is ready to pick up!

this house sucks for growing anything, the only 'yard' where there's even a chance of letting them grow is on the north side of the house

I have to say, having a keg in the garage is *not* good for my diet

and this evening I picked up a couple 2x4's, a 1500w 120v heating element, and some casters

If I was renting I wouldn't give a shiat and i'd put it right in the middle of the lawn!
And, i'm sure its just fine having beer on tap.....hehe I love it!
Can't wait to see what you come up with this weekend with the 2x4's and your heating element!

Hehe, its funny how the hobby turns everyone into a mad scientist putting all of the fittings an hoses together to make beer! Hehe

My wife and I are both really good cooks and when I showed her those 3 vids I posted a couple pages back she was like... yeah we need to make beer this way!
This was all before I had even made my first batch!

Thanks for reminding me that I need to swing by Home Depot and replenish my supply of 2x4's I like to have on hand for whatever reasons.

y'know, I was doing some thinking this evening. My initial thoughts to doing a 120v heating element were negative, because I was thinking of the future and have to 're-do' a bunch of stuff when I go 240v. But, all I will really have to do is change the supply cable, and add another SSR to the existing panel I will have built. I *will* be out the cost of a propane burner, but that's not too big a deal.

so if I pick this up, it only adds $50 to the total, I won't plumb in propane to the upper burner, and when I go all electric I will return my current burner to my buddy that I borrowed from. I'm pretty sure I can come up with an additional $50 worth of parts out of my garage to sell

I have no doubt I will be doing all grain in the future, I just don't know how soon it'll be. I'll leave most of the work to the authors of the partial mash recipes and wait till I can find some big boy britches. Then I'll go all grain. lulz

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